We spoke with Junichi Masuda about the next step for Pokémon on Switch and whether or not the studio is done with the 3DS.
If you are new to the Pokémon universe or just bought a Switch, you might be wondering: what are the best Pokémon games for Nintendo Switch?
Nevada Dru from Bits & Pieces explores delayed gratification in JRPG's.
I really enjoyed this article, it was a good read. This quote gave me a chuckle, because it's true!:
"Pretty much every JRPG involves the player’s characters going from barely being able to lift a sword to killing God"
Final Fantasy 15 the ultimate delayed game with delayed story dlc shoveled in at the last second. Doesn’t ring the gratifying bell when I see that stupid car at all. Article+thumbnail is like describing a 5star meal while watching your cat clean its backside.
Replies(2)More specifically I would say JRPGs are progressive gratification. Basically like listening to prog music vs anything else which imo is the best. Even if a JRPG is all about the journey, generally speaking JRPGs keep getting better as opposed to other games which usually have their high points come in either too soon, or the best parts just aren't nearly as impactful.
Also don't forget the direct comparison that the old Square Enix president made. He said Western players like TWITCH games and eastern players love Cerebral games. Now it was taken as a racist slam. But he meant it as one of the reasons outside of development time and cost return on investment(ROI). But he had a true point people here are TRAINED to like instant stuff. And people there are trained to like delayed over the top stuff. It is not a intelligence slam. I'm glad I LOVE the later gratification! Because it is way better!
In this week's episode of PCP, Emmett, and Al talk about Pokemon Let's Go, Transformers Devastation during the opening segment and then in the main segment focus on the Xbox Series X specs.
Pokemon has already been simplified to the point it's brain numbing to play. Sun and Moon are by far the easiest games in the series. Hopefully now that we have this "Lets Go" series, they can keep the casual garbage there and go back to making the main series games at least a little challenging. Though I still think the real Pokemon game for Switch should be like Colosseum/XD.
Why? What a let down. They have the ability to finally deliver a full fledged experience, and instead deliver a watered down simplified glorified mobile game.
Pokemon is already simple even though I didn't really notice that much about the dif between sp atk and regular atk until I got older. Colosseum/xd is what they should be aiming for.
“Simplifying”
I honestly don’t think anything has simplified Pokémon more than when X & Y gave the EXP. Share early on, and made it a key item so that no Pokémon had to hold it, and all Pokémon in your party would each gain half the EXP of the amount your Pokémon in use would. THAT turned Pokémon into one of the easiest games ever created. Amazingly, it’s always been a fairly simple and easy series.